In a video posted to his YouTube, Perez explained what he thinks happened. After he apparently saw Swifties posting a photo of someone holding up back of the album with the alleged tracklist for Taylor Swift's forthcoming album Reputation (which is out this Friday), he uploaded the photo to his personal Twitter account. He then said he received a takedown notice for the post from Taylor's label followed by a suspension.

"The album comes out in two days and you're suspending me for promoting your album?" He said incredulously, "I didn't leak freaking music, it's a freaking tracklisting."

"The timing of this is all mind boggling," Perez said in his video. He pointed out how many journalists were feeling "bullied" by the "Taylor Swift machine" following recent letters sent to critics. Perez admitted that he had never felt "bullied" by Taylor before but now considered himself a "victim of Taylor." He then went on to question why he was still suspended from Twitter after Taylor herself posted the tracklist "an hour later," and claimed that, “If [Taylor's team] threaten to sue me I'ma hit up the ACLU.”